Heraldry however, as it is presently defined was first used after the conquests of the Norman groups in Britain in 1066 AD.It gained in popularity quite rapidly, becoming a means to identify the members of your own group on a battlefield, by the use of their shields and armor. Heraldry is of special importances in genealogy research, since the rig...

Does your family have a coat of arms? If it does, you may be surprised to find that its not the one that you think it might be. Down through history there have been coats of arms that were used as ornamentation,and the simple fact is that today not many of us are really aware of what they mean, whether the design we are seeing is an accurate rendit...

There is not a genealogist, amateur or professional who has not struggled at times to understand a document that is written in more archaic, or older terminology. As you can see by the document above, a document which is partially hand written and in part printed, their are rampant misspellings and areas in which deciphering the old script is diff...

While in todays society things such as death in childbirth or from some of the more common diseases, are quite rare occurrences that was not always the case. Approximately 30% of men who lived pioneer or wandering lifestyles in those days would marry a second and sometimes a third time. The degree of remarriage was largely due to death, not divorc...

Every family has the age old myth or the legend of the grandmother who was a “full blooded Indian princess”. In fact, the Native American tribes didn’t sport many “Indian Princesses, but almost every family has some degree of native American blood and all of them, by and large due to prejudices that used to, and in some cases, still do ex...

The most common forms that you’re going to find to keep your genealogy information together are those which are also used by genealogists the world over. They are the pedigree chart, or the family group sheet. Both of these will help you keep all the information that you’ve found on your family history together in one place. They are e...

When you finally decide that you’d like to get you family tree down, its going to take a bit of effort to accomplish but there are a few things you can do that will help to speed the process. First of all , you want to round up everything that you’ve got that might mean something. Grab photos, documents, old letters, books, bibles, and eve...

Depending on where you live in the world, it is still possible in most cases to order copies of the certificates that you’d like to use to help you in your genealogy. Among those which could be helpful are the birth, marriage, death and divorce (although these were less common) certificates that may be on file. Various countries began in their r...

Whatever your reason for wanting to trace your Native American ancestry, whether its to become a part of the tribe, or simply to verify that old family story that says you were a direct descendant of a federally recognized Native American tribe, it’s going to start just like any other kind of genealogy. At the beginning. The beginning of any...

In Genealogy, there are many areas that need to be looked at. In point of fact, almost too many mysteries to tackle at one time, if you are searching, as most of us are, for more than one family ancestor. One of the things that many of us neglect to do is to focus on each area of our genealogy research, one at a time, until we find the solution we...